Bruce Campbell (ornithologist)

Bruce Campbell (born June 15, 1912 in Southsea , Hampshire , † January 9, 1993 in Witney , Oxfordshire ) was a British ornithologist , non-fiction author and radio personality who was closely associated with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

Life

Campbell was influenced as a young boy by his father, an army officer who collected bird nests and eggs and later became the British Army's physical training inspector . After graduating from Winchester College , he studied at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry . He later did a PhD in comparative ornithologyand thus became one of the first field naturalists who was also a trained scientist. In 1938 he married Margaret Gibson-Hill, herself an author, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. From 1936 to 1948 he was a teacher and university lecturer. After the Second World War he made the BTO aware of the work of the German sound engineer Ludwig Karl Koch . In 1948 Campbell was appointed the first full-time secretary of the BTO, a position he held until 1959. He was a committee member with Julian Huxley of the Wildlife Collection and he was active in the British Ornithologists' Union , the British Ecological Society and conservation organizations. From 1942 to 1964, he conducted a landmark long-term study of the pied flycatcher in the Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire . In the 1950s he produced natural history radio and television programs for the BBC . In April 1959, although he had no previous experience as a producer, he was appointed senior producer at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol , a position he held until 1962. Campbell's best-known works include The Dictionary of Birds in Color from 1974, which appeared in German translation in 1976 and for which Rainer Ertel, the former managing director of NABU , wrote the foreword to the German edition.

Fonts

• with FJ North and Richenda Scott: Snowdonia. In: New Naturalist No. 13. Collins, London 1949.
• Finding nests . Collins' Clear Type Press, London 1953.
• Bird watching for beginners . Puffin Books, London 1959.
• with Jan Hanzák : The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Birds . Paul Hamlyn, London 1967, ISBN 0-600-03078-4 .
• with Bertel Bruun and Arthur B. Singer : British and European Birds in Color , Paul Hamlyn, London 1969, ISBN 0-600-00456-2 .
• with Bertel Bruun and Arthur B. Singer: The Hamlyn Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe . Paul Hamlyn, London 1970, ISBN 0-601-07065-8 .
• with James Ferguson-Lees : A Field Guide to Birds' Nests . Constable, London, 1972, ISBN 0-09-458350-1 .
• The Dictionary of Birds in Color . Michael Joseph, London 1974, ISBN 0-7181-1257-1 (German: Das große Vogelbuch , German translation by Klaus Ruge and Rainer Ertel, Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976)
• The Natural History of Britain and Northern Europe. 3 volumes. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1979, ISBN 0-340-23153-X , ISBN 0-340-23154-8 and ISBN 0-340-23155-6 .
• Birdwatcher at Large . Littlehampton Book Services, UK, 1979, ISBN 0-460-04373-0 .
• with Elizabeth Lack : A Dictionary of Birds . Poyser, Calton, UK, 1985, ISBN 0-85661-039-9 .

literature

• Edward Martell: The Author's & Writer's Who's Who . Burke's Peerage, London 1971, p. 127.
• W. Donald Campbell: Bruce Campbell. In: The Guardian . Jan 15, 1993, p. 12, retrieved from newspapers.com on December 2, 2019
• Peter Marren: The New Naturalists . HarperCollins, 1995, ISBN 0-00-219997-1 .
• Bruce Campbell , WildFilmHistory, accessed December 2, 2019.
• David William Snow : Obituary Bruce Campbell . In: The Independent . January 13, 1993, accessed December 2, 2019.
• Richard Fitter : Bruce Campbell (1912-1993) In: Ibis No. 135, October 1993, p. 476 doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1993.tb02127.x

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruce Campbell (ornithologist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat